Maria Geiss-Wittmann

Maria Geiss-Wittmann (born March 3, 1934 in Finkenhammer ) is a German politician ( CSU ).

Life

Geiss-Wittmann passed the state examination at the higher technical school for social work in 1958 and worked as a social worker in Amberg and Sulzbach-Rosenberg until 1970 . From 1966 to 1984 she was a member of the city council of Amberg. From 1970 to 1986 she was a member of the Bavarian State Parliament . From 2000 to 2008 she was state chairwoman of donum vitae in Bavaria . Maria Geiss-Wittmann has made many contributions to the social development of Bavaria and Amberg a. a. through voluntary work as a board member in the social service of Catholic women . She is the initiator of the "Moses Project" to save unwanted children. In 2008 she received the prize for moral courage awarded by the Catholic peace movement Pax Christi for his “work against forgetting”.

literature

• On the adventure of founding , 10 years of DONUM VITAE in Bavaria eV, ed. Walter Bayerlein, Hanna Stützle, Ottweiler 2009, ISBN 978-3-938381-24-3 , pp. 22–24, 38, 43, 71–73
• Give me a chance, thoughts to ponder, impulses for the gift of life (donum vitae) , Walter Bayerlein, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-938381-23-6 , foreword by Maria Geiss-Wittmann

Web links

• Maria Geiss-Wittmann in the parliamentary database at the House of Bavarian History
• Honorary citizen of the city of Amberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prize for moral courage . pax christi Regensburg. Retrieved October 17, 2017.